Designing and constructing corrugated glass facades
<span>Flat glass panels are in use since the time of the Roman Empire. In the ruins of the city of Pompeii, destroyed by the Vulcan Vesuvius in 79 DC, a glass panel in a bronze frame of 300 × 600 mm was found. In this article we describe a mayor improvement in the structural behaviour of glass...
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| description | <span>Flat glass panels are in use since the time of the Roman Empire. In the ruins of the city of Pompeii, destroyed by the Vulcan Vesuvius in 79 DC, a glass panel in a bronze frame of 300 × 600 mm was found. In this article we describe a mayor improvement in the structural behaviour of glass panels by making the glass curved, or more accurately, corrugated. Both the in- and out-plane loading meet far more resistance against deformation, and the corrugated glass panels have a largely increased bearing capacity with the same thickness of glass the flat panel has. Also architecturally the appearance of a corrugated glass panel in facades is far more appealing.</span> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-98762ee0fa1f47b6b10c26d0e786cbc52022-12-22T02:55:41ZengStichting OpenAccessJournal of Facade Design and Engineering2213-302X2213-30382015-05-0121-212313210.3233/FDE-140014858Designing and constructing corrugated glass facadesRob Nijsse0Ronald Wenting1aUniversity of Delft (NL) & Consulting Engineer, ABT, ArnhemStructural Engineer, ABT, Arnhem<span>Flat glass panels are in use since the time of the Roman Empire. In the ruins of the city of Pompeii, destroyed by the Vulcan Vesuvius in 79 DC, a glass panel in a bronze frame of 300 × 600 mm was found. In this article we describe a mayor improvement in the structural behaviour of glass panels by making the glass curved, or more accurately, corrugated. Both the in- and out-plane loading meet far more resistance against deformation, and the corrugated glass panels have a largely increased bearing capacity with the same thickness of glass the flat panel has. Also architecturally the appearance of a corrugated glass panel in facades is far more appealing.</span>http://jfde.tudelft.nl/index.php/jfde/article/view/885 |
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